Siddharth

tolerably witty

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

Good chai in okay looking places: a collection

[Mens_Corner__ @Mens_Corner__]

I bet his wife hate this lmao

[Erikas Mališauskas @malisauskasLT]

Me and my girlfriend went on color hunting in Berlin this weekend. We picked two random colors and had to make a 3x3 photo grid featuring that color. I got yellow, she got blue, here's the result.

Had lots of fun - highly recommend!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

vegan breakfasts in shanghai

[Noah @Noahhcalls]

me in 2007 instead of buying Bitcoin

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

a saturday morning in hangzhou

[Definitely Nick @other_st_nick]

Hired a financial advisor and his first piece of advice was that I don't make nearly enough money to justify paying a financial advisor

[Paweł Wargan @pawelwargan]

This is how a world on the cusp of revolution looks.

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

god bless fun flips

[🌻444 Caramel Crush✨ @Letii_Sunshine]

Tell me why. My coworker started crying cuz her boyfriend broke up wit her (thru text) & my manager gone say "that's why we tell y'all stay off y'all phones at work” 😭😭😭

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

spotted in bangalore:

[Gurpriya @GurpriyaSidhu]

In the early 2000s, clubbing in India had started to get mainstream. Standalone clubs, bars and lounges were popping in metros like Bangalore and Mumbai.

Naturally, Bollywood picked on this trend. All movies of the 2000s now had at least 1 'club song' in them.

Think, "Koi kahe kehta rahe" from Dil Chahta Hai, or "Hone do dil ko fanna" from Yuvva.

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

This is an all-time great prank

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

@achhra_nikita Check now? I am unable to DM you

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

@achhra_nikita Yes - lemme check DM settings

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

RT @thevirdas: To family, friends and more who sit in blackouts as we speak, thinking of you, praying for you. To those protecting them, we…

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

@BangaloreRoomi

[Siddharth @sidunderatree]

@anothersidd Atishay, Panda, Shubhi & SidSingh.

[Adam Wren @aswren]

This is all I want. The idea of the little internal courtyard, loved it everywhere I’ve seen it